I agree that there are some very cool components of systemd (or rather, very cool programs living in systemd repo) - networkd, resolved, repart, boot and stub c

I agree that there are some very cool components of systemd (or rather, very cool programs living in systemd repo) - networkd, resolved, repart, boot and stub come to my mind first, they have no alternatives that come even close to them. Also, systemd made writing service definitions easy, hats off to them. With cgroups, namespaces and capabilities support out of the box - great. However, every time I have to debug why some target wasn't reached (because some dependency of dependency failed), or why systemd mounted something wrongly, or just want to know how often and why some service restarted, I feel like the core part of systemd (which is, the systemd init and service runner) is working against me. And let's not get started on journald, I declare it my enemy.